Re: [rain1 at airmail dot cc] Delete abortion joke

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>]

On May  9, 2018, DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> wrote:

> you took a risk in relying on Ondrej's comment.

FTR, I did not rely on it.  Indeed, I only noticed it after I restored
the initial conditions for the reasons stated in the commit message (and
the corresponding email).  I and others could have relied on it, and
Carlos and Zack couldn't possibly know there weren't other objections
relying on that one.  I was nevertheless surprised the patch was put in
so quickly, and I regretted not having raised the objection before
contacting Richard.  So I had an unvoiced objection, it just didn't rely
on the standing objection.  A much higher risk indeed, but I'm told the
community does not wish to follow a development model in which people
are encouraged to post objections very very quickly, especially for
controversial changes.  I can imagine that some might mistakenly assume
the change was not controversial, but I can also imagine that some
wanted to be through with it quickly to avoid the controversy that would
likely arise once RMS knew about it.

> Perhaps the silver lining here is that we've all learned not to assume
> that others see each situation or interpret each comment the same way
> we do.

+1

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